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Saab 9-5 Sedan Named IIHS 2011 Top Safety Pick
Saab 9-5 Sedan Named IIHS 2011 Top Safety Pick

17 Jun 2011, 06:29 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Featured in the latest batch of vehicles that received the Top Safety Pick Award this year from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is the Saab 9-5 Sedan, a car that has already receiv...

 
2012MY Saab 9-5 SportWagon New UK Prices and Specs Announced
2012MY Saab 9-5 SportWagon New UK Prices and Specs Announced

16 Jun 2011, 12:42 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The British market range of the 2012 Saab will be substantially improved with the arrival of the new SportWagon and a series of enhancements, including further reduced CO2 emissions for all engines....

 
Saab Production Freezes Again
Saab Production Freezes Again

8 Jun 2011, 11:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the beginning of the week, another bad news hit the fans of Swedish automaker Saab, as well as its biggest customer, Pang Da: the Swedish have stopped production in Trollhattan, due to the lack o...

 
Pang Da Buys More Saabs, Saab Gets More Money
Pang Da Buys More Saabs, Saab Gets More Money

1 Jun 2011, 12:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The best business partner Saab could have ever dreamed of (which is, at the same time, an investor and the biggest client) made another life-saving announcement on Wednesday, one that involves an ex...

 
Can I Have a Saab Nespresso, Please?
Can I Have a Saab Nespresso, Please?

30 May 2011, 05:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Bad publicity is better than no publicity. An advertising axiom that has proven to be the definition of Saab in recent years. A calm, quiet, minding-its-own-business car maker that sold enough to su...

 
Pang Da Sees Bright Future for Saab
Pang Da Sees Bright Future for Saab

28 May 2011, 10:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Being one of the most important auto dealers on the Chinese market, Saab's wannabe rescuers, Pang Da, seems to know a thing or two about how to run an automotive operation in the world's l...

 
Saab Back in Business, Production Lines Rolling
Saab Back in Business, Production Lines Rolling

27 May 2011, 09:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For the first time since April 6, when problems with unpaid suppliers led to the closure of Saab's production plant in Trollhattan, the lines of the facility were powered on again on Friday mor...

 
Saab Begins Assembling EV Test Fleet
Saab Begins Assembling EV Test Fleet

25 May 2011, 07:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Because of the cash issues it is experiencing, the Saab Trollhattan isn't producing any cars for the masses at the moment (hopes are that production will be resumed this Friday, provided the kn...

 
Pang Da's Saab Bid Reaches SNDO
Pang Da's Saab Bid Reaches SNDO

24 May 2011, 13:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In recent months, one great piece of news for Saab was soon followed by a bad one, or at least one that diminished the initial enthusiasm to the point of disappearance. Simply put, there are too man...

 
Spyker to Change Name to Swedish Automobile
Spyker to Change Name to Swedish Automobile

24 May 2011, 09:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The recently announced alliance between Spyker and Chinese dealership network Pang Da, meant to save Swedish producer Saab from the sinkhole of insolvency, does come with a few strings attached, if ...

 
Pang Da Seeks Permission to Invest in Saab
Pang Da Seeks Permission to Invest in Saab

23 May 2011, 07:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Nearly a week after Swedish manufacturer Saab announced that the name of its savior knight is Pang Da, the Chinese company has begun talks with state authorities, including the National Development ...

 
Chinese-Made Saab to Be Produced in Two Years
Chinese-Made Saab to Be Produced in Two Years

20 May 2011, 10:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Odd as it seemed at the time of the announcement made a couple of days ago, the partnership between Swedish manufacturer Saab and an internationally little known Chinese car dealer is expected to pr...

 
Saab Production Resumes Next Week, 9-4X Rolls Off the Lines
Saab Production Resumes Next Week, 9-4X Rolls Off the Lines

19 May 2011, 13:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ever since Swedish manufacturer Saab bit off more that it could chew a few months ago, choking on a sizeable amount of cash and some scared suppliers, no one really knows how things are going in Tro...

 
China Gets Its Hands on Saab
China Gets Its Hands on Saab

16 May 2011, 07:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Long time coming, this news has been... Still struggling on the home front, Swedish manufacturer Saab is continuing to seek hope and shelter in China, the new land of all possibilities and, by the l...

 
Saab Convertible Turns 25
Saab Convertible Turns 25

11 May 2011, 07:51 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The current year marks the 25th anniversary of Saab Convertible’s launch, the Swedish manufacturer announced today, while releasing a number of key aspects from the history of its open-top car...

 
Saab Hires Subaru Exec as COO in North America
Saab Hires Subaru Exec as COO in North America

10 May 2011, 10:42 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Saab has announced that a Subaru executive will be put in charge of its North American businesses, as the Swedish carmaker says that Timothy Colbeck would be the president and chief operating office...

 
Classic Saab 93 Trio Ready for Mille Miglia 2011
Classic Saab 93 Trio Ready for Mille Miglia 2011

10 May 2011, 06:53 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Swedish manufacturer Saab is currently preparing a trio of historic Saab 93s for the 2011 Mille Miglia event, in order to commemorate Charlie Lohmander and Harald Kronegard’s 1957 classic win....

 
UK Analyst Forecast Increase in Residual Value of Saab Cars
UK Analyst Forecast Increase in Residual Value of Saab Cars

5 May 2011, 12:27 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Leading leasing companies and industry analysts in Great Britain are forecasting trend-busting improvements in future residual values for Saab’s best selling models. According to industry anal...

 
Saab Details Hawtai Motor Partnership Agreement
Saab Details Hawtai Motor Partnership Agreement

3 May 2011, 14:42 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In an attempt to save Saab from going under... again, and after securing the €30 million, Spyker Car N.V. CEO Victor Muller moved to sign a strategic partnership with China’s Hawtai Motor...

 
Saab Secures Short-Term Financing
Saab Secures Short-Term Financing

3 May 2011, 07:51 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Saab is a company that has been hit hard by the recent economic crisis, yet it manages to soldier on, selling 10,888 vehicles in the first quarter of the year, four times more than in the same perio...